Solutions:
For The Things We All Worry About

What we ultimately need to solve the many critical problems of modern life is direct action. And... it is up to YOU!

on this page: solutions links reading material making a difference meanwhile...

The Working Minds / Solutions Pages

Activism Index Page U.S. Politics / Elections Economics Internet Issues Media / Free Speech The Environment

Alternative Energy Page Solar Energy Wind Energy Ocean Energy Hydrogen Technology Bio-Fuels

Alternative Media Page
Alternative-Fuel Vehicles Page
Environment Page
Labor, Capitalism & the Working Mind
Making A Difference Page
Progressive Talk Radio Page
Recycling Page
Solar Energy Page

"Not everything that is faced can be changed;
but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
— James Baldwin [1924-87]

You are cordially invited
to join the Revolution!

The Working Minds Manifesto:
Revolution For A World That Works
Where Quality of Life is the Most Important Value
in English • in French • auf Deutsch • en Espaρol
in Dutch • in Italian • in Greek • in Russian

Solutions Links

"National Excellence: A Case for Developing America's Talent"
[U.S. Department of Education Report October 1993]
online text version at U.S. Dept. of Education

Negative Population Growth [est. 1972]
National Day of Reason [May 6th]
Green Home Building: info on sustainable & natural architecture
nifty tools to measure garden hose output
Common Sense for Drug Policy and Drug War Facts
The Heifer Project [est. 1944]
Nigel J. Williams 'The Green Millionaire' (free book)

Purpose Prize: for seniors 60+ [est. 2005; deadline in March]
Fortune Brainstorm Green Conference [April-May 2013 = #13] in Laguna Niguel, California
Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability Forum [June 2013 = #17] in Boulder, Colorado
Aspen [CO] Ideas Festival [July 2013 = #8]

American Labor Movements Pages
at Spirit of America Bookstore

'Economics Or Else!' Pages
at Maison d'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore

Selected Books on These Subjects
Earth's Biosphere • Class War & Economics • Healthcare
Energy & Global Warming • Education • International Politics
Corporations vs. America

Books About U.S. Politics & Elections Pages
at Spirit of America Bookstore

Solutions: Reading Material

Chelsea Green Publishing - books on sustainable living [est. 1984]

	"It Is Later Than You Think: The Need For A Militant Democracy" [orig 1938, revised 1943] by Max Lerner [1902-1992] Transaction Publrs hardcover [1/89] for $39.95
	"Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics For A New Age" [1984] by Benjamin R. Barber Univ CA Press 9x6 pb [2/2004] for $11.53 Univ CA Press hardcover [6/84] out of print/used
	"The Quiet Crisis and The Next Generation" [1988] by Stewart L. Udall contains the original "Quiet Crisis" book, plus nine additional chapters Gibbs Smith 8½x5½ pb [9/91] out of print/used Gibbs Smith hardcover [10/88] out of print/used "The Quiet Crisis" [orig 1963] Avon mass pb [1/64] out of print/used Holt, Rinehart & Winston hardcover [1/64] out of print/used
	"Save Our Planet: 750 Everyday Ways You Can Help Clean Up The Earth" [1990] by Diane Maceachern, illustrations by Lonni Sue Johnson Dell 9x6 pb [12/91] for $15.00 Dell 8½x6¼ pb [rev 4/95] out of print/many used
	"A Sustainable Economy For The 21st Century" [1998] by Juliet B. Schor Seven Stories Press / Open Media pamphlet [12/98] for $5.36 Seven Stories / Open Media Adobe Reader ebook [2/99] for $4.50 Seven Stories / Open Media M/S Reader ebook [2/99] for $4.50
	"When Technology Fails: A Manual For Self-Reliance & Planetary Survival" [2000] by Matthew Stein Clear Light Books 11x8½ pb [12/2000] for $12.97 author's design & engineering website
	"Cradle To Cradle: Remaking The Way We Make Things" [2002] by William McDonough & Michael Braungart North Point Press 8x5 pb [4/2002] for $16.50
	"The Fortune At The Bottom of The Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits" [2004] by C.K. Prahalad Wharton School 9x6¼ pb [1/2006] for $11.04 Wharton School hardcover {book & CD-ROM} [8/2004] for $18.89
	"What Can I Do?: An Alphabet For Living" [2004] by Lisa Harrow Hundreds of websites that tell you how to make your home, your life, your entire world more beautiful, simple and sustainable 'in accordance with the laws of nature'. Chelsea Green pb [9/2004] for $7.95
	"Powerdown: Options & Actions For A Post-Carbon World" [2004] by Richard Heinberg New Society 8½x6 pb [9/2004] for $11.53 Temple Lodge pb [9/2004] out of print/used
	"Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities & The Durable Future" [2007] by Bill McKibben Holt 8x5¼ pb [3/2008] for $11.20 Times Books 9¼x6¼ hardcover [3/2007] for $15.00
	"Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need A Green Revolution - and How It Can Renew America" [2009] by (Pulitzer Prize-winner) Thomas L. Friedman Kindle Edition from Picador [11/2009] for $9.99 Picador 2nd edition 8¼x5½ pb [11/2009] for $10.88

Solutions: Periodicals

	"Z Magazine" [est. 1988] Z is an independent monthly magazine dedicated to resisting injustice, defending against repression, and creating liberty. It sees the racial, gender, class, and political dimensions of personal life as fundamental to understanding and improving contemporary circumstances; and it aims to assist activist efforts for a better future. 11 issues/year subscription for $44.37 [USA only] Znet / Z Magazine website
	"YES! A Journal of Positive Futures" An award-winning quarterly magazine that invites readers to be part of a global community of change makers. Each issue focuses on a theme, showing the possibilities and practical steps that can lead us all to a more positive future. In each issue you also find book reviews, practical advice for living more sustainably, the page that counts, special features, columns, and short "indicators." 4 issues/year subscription for $25.76 via Amazon Yes! Magazine website
	"The Progressive" Magazine [est. 1909] "[Our] mission is to be a journalistic voice for peace and social justice at home and abroad. The magazine, its affiliates, and its staff steadfastly oppose militarism, the concentration of power in corporate hands, the disenfranchisement of the citizenry, poverty, and prejudice in all its guises. We champion peace, social and economic justice, civil rights, civil liberties, human rights, a preserved environment, and a reinvigorated democracy." subscription: 12 issues/year for $36.00 via Amazon 'The Progressive' Magazine website
	"Ode Magazine" in Dutch or English English edition subscription: 8 issues/year for $29.95 via Amazon Ode Magazine website
	"Mother Jones" Magazine [est. 1976] An independent nonprofit whose roots lie in a commitment to social justice implemented through first rate investigative reporting. subscription: 6 issues/year for $15.00 via Amazon Mother Jones Magazine website
	"Monthly Review" Magazine: An Independent Socialist Magazine Founded in 1949 to counter the anti-Communist hysteria of the Blacklist Era; currently provides analysis of world and national events from a political and economic point of view; recent contributors include Grace Lee Boggs, Noam Chomsky, Eduardo Galeano & John Nichols, with recent 'reprise' articles by Albert Einstein & C. Wright Mills subscription: 11 issues/year for $39.00 via Amazon Monthly Review Magazine website
	"The Liberal Opinion Week" A 32-page tabloid that each week reprints 50+ essays & 40+ cartoons from liberal columnists & artists such as Jonathan Chait, Maureen Dowd, Ellen Goodman, Bob Herbert, Jim Hightower, Paul Krugman, Marianne Means, Tom Oliphant, Bill Press, Robert Scheer, Helen Thomas & Jules Witcover Liberal Opinion Week website direct subscription: 52 issues/year for $67.00
	"In These Times Magazine - With Liberty and Justice For All" "[We are] a nonprofit and independent newsmagazine committed to political and economic democracy and opposed to the dominance of trans-national corporations and the tyranny of marketplace values over human values" subscription: 12 issues/year for $19.95 via Amazon In These Times Magazine [est. 1976] website

Individuals
Who Have Made –  or Are Making  – A Difference

People, A to Z Section   •   The Twelve-Step Programs Section

Working Minds Philosophy's Progressivism Page

This section grew very large and was cut to a separate page at the end of 2012.

Solutions: futurist Lester R. Brown
founder & president of the Earth Policy Institute

	"Plan B: Rescuing A Planet Under Stress and A Civilization In Trouble" [2003] W.W. Norton 8½x5¼ pb [9/2003] for $10.85 W.W. Norton 8½x5½ hardcover [9/2003] for $27.95
	"Plan B 2.0: Rescuing A Planet Under Stress & A Civilization In Trouble" [2006] W.W. Norton 9x6 pb [1/2006] out of print/used W.W. Norton 9½x6½ hardcover [1/2006] out of print/used
	"Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing To Save Civilization" [2008] Kindle Edition from W.W. Norton [2008 edition] for $9.32 W.W. Norton 9x6 pb [1/2008] for $11.53 W.W. Norton 9¼x6½ hardcover [1/2008] out of print/used
	"Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing To Save Civilization" [2009] Kindle Edition from W.W. Norton [10/2009] for $9.32 W.W. Norton 9x6 pb [10/2009] for $11.53 W.W. Norton 9½x6½ hardcover [10/2009] for $19.77
	"The Great Transition: Shifting From Fossil Fuels To Wind and Solar Energy" [2015] Kindle Edition from W.W. Norton & Co. [4/2015] for $9.99 W.W. Norton & Co. 8¼x5½ pb [4/2015] for $13.16

Solutions: futurist James Howard Kunstler
browse books • official website

	"The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise & Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape" [1993] Kindle 20th Anniversary Edition from Amazon Digital Services [9/2013] for $3.99 {sic} Free Press 8½x5½ pb [7/94] for $11.20 S&S 9½x6¼ hardcover [6/93] out of print/used
	"Home From Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World For The 21st Century" [1996] Touchstone Press 8½x6½ pb [3/98] for $10.20 S&S 9¾x6¼ hardcover [10/96] out of print/used
	"The Long Emergency: Surviving The End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of The Twenty-First Century" [2005] Kindle Edition from Grove Press [2007 edition] for $9.99 Grove Press 9x6 pb [3/2006] for $11.16 Atlantic Monthly Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [4/2005] out of print/150+ used
	"Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and The Fate of The Nation" [2012] Kindle Edition from Atlantic Monthly Press [6/2012] for $9.99 Grove Press 8¼x5½ pb [7/2013] for $12.39 Atlantic Monthly Press 9¼x6 hardcover [6/2012] for $18.50

Solutions: Twelve-Step & Other Recovery Programs
browse 12-Step Recovery catalog at Amazon.com

Getting Them Sober Foundation in Baltimore, Maryland

	"Bill W.: The Absorbing & Deeply Moving Life Story of Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous" [1975] by Robert Thomsen Hazelden 8¼x5½ pb [8/99] for $10.85
	"My Name Is Bill W." [Hallmark/Warner Bros./A.B.C. tv movie April 1989] Directed by Daniel Petrie; teleplay by William G. Borchert; starring James Woods, James Garner, JoBeth Williams & Gary Sinise; won Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor {Woods}, Emmy noms for Outstanding Drama, Oustanding Direction, Outstanding Script & Outstanding Supporting Actor {Garner}, nominated for A.C.E. & D.G.A. awards Warner color DVD [6/2006] for $17.49 Warner color VHS [2/96] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb
	"My Name Is Bill: Bill Wilson - His Life & The Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous" [2004] by Susan Cheever S&S 8¾x5¾ hardcover [2/2004] for $16.80
	"The Lois Wilson Story: When Love Is Not Enough - The Authorized Biography of The Co-founder of Al-Anon" [2005] by William G. Borchert Hazelden 9x6 Hallmark movie tie-in pb [4/2010] for $10.85 Hazelden 9x6 pb [1/2008] out of print/used Hazelden 9x6 hardcover [10/2005] out of print/used
	"When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story" [Hallmark/C.B.S. tv movie April 2010] Directed by John Kent Harrison; starring Winona Ryder, Barry Pepper & Ellen Dubin DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • official movie site
	"Bill W." [indep May 2012] 104-minute color and b&w docudrama film about the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous and the other 'Twelve Step' programs • Co-written & directed by Dan Carracino & Kevin Hanlon; co-written by Patrick Gambuti, Jr.; voices of Bill Wilson & Dr. Bob; featuring Blake J. Evans, Chris Gates, Dennis Lowell, Julia Schell, Tim Intravia • DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb • official movie site • official trailer [2:01] at YouTube

Solutions: Feminism & Women's Rights
Women gained the right to vote in New Zealand in 1893, in Finland in 1907, in the U.S.A in 1920, in Britain in 1928, and in Switzerland - finally - in 1971.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage

"Le Deuxiιme Sexe (The Second Sex)" [] by Simone de Beauvoir

"Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History" [2016] by Sam Maggs, Illustrated by Sophia Foster-Dimino subjects include Aphra Behn, Nellie Bly, physicist Marie Curie, Emilie de Chatelet, aviator Amelia Earhart, U.S. Navy Admiral Grace Hopper, Hedy Lamarr, Ada Lovelace, Sacagawea, businesswoman Madam C.J. Walker, many others Kindle Edition from Quirk Books/Penguin Random House [10/2016] for $1.99 {sic} Quirk Books 7¾x5¼ hardcover [10/2016] for $8.15

If you know of other possible solutions, i.e. specific websites, people or books
suggest via email, so that we can pass along the info.

Meanwhile . . . check out these direct, personal means
to empower your own life
against the Forces of Endarkenment . . .

Home • Solutions {this page} • Activism • Essays • Free eBooks • Quotations

The Working Minds Manifesto:
Revolution For A World That Works
Where Quality of Life is the Most Important Value
{ now online in eight languages }

Meaning and Purpose website
Reason-Based Taxation website
The United Federation of Indentured Servants [est. 2010]
Working Minds Philosophy Institute

Dateline Chamesa: A Revolutionary Weblog [est. 2005]

G.E. Nordell's Landmark Education Pages

Selected Books On These Subjects
Earth's Biosphere • Class War & Economics • Healthcare
Energy & Global Warming • Education • International Politics
Corporations vs. America

Books on U.S. Politics & Elections Pages
at Spirit of America Bookstore

♦                  ♦                  ♦

Things to Worry About main Worry index 'Corporations vs. America' Page Energy & Global Warming Page Class War & Economics Pages Trans-Pacific Partnership Page U.S. Politics / Elections Pages Pipeline Disasters Page International Politics Page Earth's Biosphere Page Internet Freedom Page Human Rights Page War & Peace Page Health Care Page Education Page Racism Page

Working Minds: Solutions top of this page Activism Pages Alternative Energy Page Alternative Media Page Alternative-Fuel Vehicles Page Environment Page Labor, Capitalism & the Working Mind Making A Difference Page Progressive Talk Radio Page Recycling Page Solar Energy Page

Visiting this webpage from outside the U.S.A.? It is possible to make purchases from these coded Amazon (USA) links
via other Amazon sites: just follow these instructions.

Online sales in association with  

top of this page  |   back to Working Minds Philosophy homepage

{ subsite started 12/2003               last update }

website built by G.E.N. Website Design & Construction